31 August 2016 - National Defence HQ (Ottawa, 31 August 2016), "Revisiting Africa in Canadian Security planning & assessment," Expert Briefing based on the June Workshop: "Revisiting Africa in Canadian security planning & assessment"------CONGRESS 2016 (June 2016, University of Calgary)The University of Calgary hosted the 2016 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (May 28 - June 3). Of particular note were the annual conferences of the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA, 31 May - 2 June), the Canadian Association for African Studies (CAAS, 1-3 June), and the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID, 1-3 June). I was on the local organizing committee for CAAS.

CPSA/CAAS Conferences (Calgary, SSHRC Congress, June 2016 )Panel paper: Canadian bilateral relations with “priority” countries in Africa: the foundations & persistence of routinized intervention and the extraverted, gate-keeper state[This paper was part of a linked panel & roundtable series under the theme "Canada-Africa Relations Sixty Years After Suez: Who's Marginal to Whom?" I was also the chair of the roundtable and was a chair or discussant in other CPSA and CAAS panels.]------

Society of Military History Conference (Ottawa, April 2016):Panel paper: The Canadian Forces in Africa 1956-1969: Reluctant Interventionists

28 August 2014 - Workshop: Multilateralism as State Strategy: Seeking Order in an Anarchic Society, University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB)Canada, International Society, and the Paradox of the Post-Colonial African State

22 August 2014 - Kwame Nkrumah International Conference IIIKwantlen Polytechnic University (Richmond, BC)Assessing the Relative Salience of Sino-Canadian Military Involvement across Africa, 1956-2014 ﻿17 June 2013 - Lunchtime talk at the 15th Mining Industry Learning SeminarUniversity of Alberta (Edmonton, AB)Notes from East Africa: Community Social Responsibility, a new CSR

1-3 May 2013 - Canadian Association of African Studies 2013 Annual ConferenceCarleton University (Ottawa, ON)1) Roundtable: Canadian Foreign Policy and Radicalization in the Sahel: Interests, Responsibilities, Responses (I organized this roundtable, including Amb. Robert Fowler, Dr. Edward Akuffo, (now) Dr. Christopher Dyck, and myself)2) The Other Resource Curse: Extractives as Development Panacea, Redux

21 September 2012 - China and Canada in Africa Conference (China Institute/UofA, IDRC, DFAIT), Ottawa, ONCanada’s Hidden Role in China’s Rise in Africa: Canadian leverage at a tipping point

13 June 2012 - CPSA 2012 Annual ConferenceUniversity of Alberta (Edmonton, AB)The English School Meets the Complexity Sciences at the fin de siècle of International Relations Theory

27 October 2011 - Conference of Defence Associations Institute 14th Annual Graduate Student Symposium, Royal Military College (Kingston, ON)The Persistent Salience of a Marginalized Continent: The Canadian Forces in Africa since the Independence Era

﻿21 October 2010 - Institute for African DevelopmentCornell University (Ithaca, NY)﻿The Other Curse: Natural Resources & CSR as Development Panacea

20 August 2010 - Kwame Nkrumah International Conference IKwantlen Polytechnic University (Richmond, BC)"The darkest thing about Africa has been our ignorance of it": Nkrumah & the Foundations of Canadian Foreign Policy in Post-Colonial Africa